By the time Zhang Guizhi's cavalry began to storm the city along the streets, the battle on the city walls had come to an end.

The party defenders, who had begun to fight and were still quite strong-willed, finally completely collapsed at the moment when the assault team on the eastern road went around the city wall and began to attack. Before that, more than 60 people had fallen under the wooden guns of Jiang Qide's team. Eight of Jiang Qide's subordinates were injured to varying degrees, and only one was seriously injured when he was stabbed in the waist by an enemy knife. This 60-0 record made Zhe Dehuang, who was following behind as a reserve team configuration, gasp. In his sight, none of the several assaults of the party soldiers regardless of life and death could pass the gun array laid by Jiang Qide with a team of troops, and the veterans of the Eighth Route Army who were protected by bird hammer armor maintained the integrity of the battle formation from beginning to end, and always maintained the intensity of the attack on the frontal enemy from three directions.

The city wall is so narrow, there is no choice but to attack head-on, the enemy's superior forces cannot carry out outflanking and flanking attacks, and can only face Jiang Qide's front line.

This is undoubtedly the most advantageous tactic for ironclads. Although the party had a partial advantage in total strength, the engaged troops were always in a weak position.

The contest between steel and flesh and blood is the courage of both sides, the brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, and the courage of the Tuoba warriors is not lacking, but in front of the commandos who are used to killing people, these courages are insignificant both in terms of quantity and quality.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the space three or four zhang long on the city wall was filled with the corpses of the Tuoba warriors, and the blood and water flowing out mixed with the loess on the city wall, which looked particularly dazzling in the bright sunlight.

Bloody mud ......

"Clear the passage—" Jiang Qide continued to order with a cold face.

The corpses of the party soldiers who maintained the forward posture had already crowded the passages on the city wall, stacked up to a full height of three or four stories, and the battle could not continue without pushing these corpses away.

The soldiers who were lying on the walls were pushed down one after another, and a few of them wailed and screamed as they fell to the top of the city, apparently unlucky people who had fallen after being wounded but were unfortunately crushed by their comrades who died behind.

At this moment, the second echelon has made up for the lack of a first-line position. The soldier, wounded in the lower back, was carried down by the medics who followed him, and nervously muttered, "Four...... Four...... Four-sided blue card...... Forty acres of land ......"

Rao is a cold-faced and cold-hearted man like Jiang Qide, and he couldn't help but have a sour nose, and gently patted the veteran whose front armor was completely stained red with blood: "Brother, you missed a side." It's a five-sided brand, forty-five acres of land......"

After the passage at the head of the city was reopened, the fifteen ironclad soldiers continued to advance......

A trapezoidal blood line......

The Tuoba family on the opposite side was still giving orders in a loud voice, however, the party army ground front was still involuntarily slowly retreating south. These brave soldiers are now facing the front-line assault ironclad soldiers, and they always subconsciously maintain a distance of about eight feet from these terrifying guys, which is exactly the length of the Eighth Route Army's standard wooden gun.

At this time, the sound of dense horses' hooves sounded, and the two hundred cavalry led by Zhang Guizhi rushed into the city.

It was also at this time that the assault group of fifty ironclad soldiers in the east finally detoured behind the party soldiers......

A total of five Pivotal Commanders in Tongwan City were left with a captive force of up to 480 people after the battle of breaking the city. Deprived of their weapons and armor, the Tuoba soldiers were temporarily imprisoned in their barracks in the southern city. Dwivet deployed an infantry force around the barracks, all of which were guarded by the barracks.

By the time the last of the resisters laid down their arms, the sun had already risen overhead, and the city was now completely under the control of the Eighth Route Army.

Walking in the street market where the popularity is sluggish, the Zhejia brothers felt a little uneasy in their hearts.

The city was defeated. Being able to conquer this world-strong city in less than six hours, the Zhe Dehuang brothers were indeed surprised. But what worries them the most at the moment is the broken north gate of the urn city. If the Tuoba cavalry returns to the division at this moment, the North Gate Urn City, which has been filled in as a slope, will become the culprit who buried the Yanchuan Independent Regiment. The two agreed that the first thing that should be done after the city was broken was to completely flatten the slopes of the two places that had made outstanding contributions to the city, so that the half-fan urn city was again perpendicular to the ground.

Although the residents in the city are relatively small, as the capital of the four prefectures of the Dingyan Army, there are still some people in Tongwan City after all.

Hatred existed in every corner of the city, and although organized resistance had ceased, the soldiers of the Yeonchuan Regiment were strictly ordered not to act alone. Li Wenge was worried that the national sentiment that had stirred up after entering the city would lead to non-combat attrition in the troops.

After all, the Yeoncheon Independent Regiment had less than a thousand soldiers. The city currently has a permanent population of nearly 4,000.

The four most noble families of the Tuoba family all lived in the city, and of course, there were also a large number of Han slaves.

It's a pity that Li Wenge doesn't have the leisure time to slowly screen and absorb now, and the matter of liberating slaves and expanding the army can be done under normal conditions, but it can't be done in the current state!

It's too late.

More than 3,000 elite cavalry were eyeing the north bank of the Wuding River, and Li Wenge really didn't have time to digest this strong city in the world in a slow and methodical manner.

Entering the Tuoba Yi Yin's Dingyan Military Festival Embassy, Li Wenge shook his head secretly.

This majestic mansion in the northwest. There is no style of the Jiedu Mansion built by the Gao family in Yanzhou.

The soldiers of the pro-soldier team are picking up papers. Shen Chen strode out of the mansion.

"Those captured Tuoba relatives don't know Chinese, but fortunately, I found a Han subordinate!" Shen Chen stood still. gave a military salute to Li Wenge, and said quickly.

Li Wenge returned the salute and ordered: "Bring it to me." ”

He had just removed his armor with the help of his own soldiers when several heavily armed soldiers escorted a middle-aged man wearing a round-necked shirt with three locks of long hair and walked in.

Li Wenge washed his face with the water brought by his own soldiers, and said to the man with a smile: "Mr. Chu Chunqiu? Although we have never met, we have heard of it for a long time......"

Chu Weiyan was taken aback, he looked up at the young Eighth Route Army Festival Envoy, although there are many people in their thirties who are the commanders of any party, but in just two or three years, the people who have turned the situation in Guanzhong in the northwest so upside down are so thin and inconspicuous, which really surprised him.

Although the Tuoba family has strengthened the collection and aggregation of information on Yanzhou in the past year, they have a general understanding of Li Wenge's appearance and figure. However, in the imagination, the characters who can get the allegiance of both the civil and military sides of Yanzhou should have the momentum and demeanor that a powerful person should have, and there should be some murderous spirit between his gestures. However, the person standing in front of him at this moment is thin and mediocre. The gloomy atmosphere between the corners of his eyes and eyebrows that couldn't be swept away made Chu Weiyan a little unacceptable no matter what.

As a hegemon, you don't need to be beautiful, but you should always have some unique bearing and charm, which makes people forget about it.

The knots in front of him, a purple robe that had been washed very lightly, a purple hat that was so ordinary that it could not be more ordinary, a pale color with some blue stubble, and a pair of dull triangular eyes, it was really how ordinary and how ordinary.

"Chu Weiyan, the judge of the military festival, see the general!"

Although somewhat unbelievable. Chu Weiyan still bowed down.

Li Wenge waved his hand: "Mr. Chunqiu is exempt." There are not many Han people who can speak in front of the king of Longxi, and Mr. is one! The Cultural Revolution didn't dare to accept your courtesy! ”

Chu Weiyan smiled bitterly, how could he not hear the sarcasm in Li Wenge's words, as for the opinions of the compatriots in the hometown of the Han family. Chu Weiyan had heard too much, and he had already disagreed with it.

"Now that the city is broken, what is Mr. Chunqiu's plan?"

Li Wenge slowly sat on the Hu bed that his own soldiers had moved to branch, raised his head and stared at Chu Weiyan and asked.

Chu Weiyan replied without thinking: "The general was able to break through the rule of Xiazhou Prefecture in one day, which made him admire, but I don't know what the general plans to do after breaking the city?" ”

Li Wenge was not surprised by the chief staff of the Dingyan Army's rhetorical question about himself, he nodded lightly: "It's not surprising that you think so, after all, I have few soldiers at this moment. The thousands of elite horses of the king of Longxi are close to the left, and it is only a day and a night trip from Tongwan City. The city is full of Tuoba family members, and it is not easy to hold the city with this little force in a certain hand. ”

Chu Weiyan didn't expect Li Wenge to be so honest, he looked up in surprise, and then pondered the words and said: "The family members of the King of Longxi are all in the hands of the general at this moment. If the general has the heart to negotiate peace. There's never been a better time! ”

"Peace?" Li Wenge raised his head and looked at Chu Weiyan. Laughed and said: "Use the ten thousand troops in the city to negotiate peace with the king of Longxi, and the king of Longxi is willing to accept it?" ”

"As long as the general withdraws from Xiazhou and returns his subordinates, Yinzhou, Suizhou, and even Youzhou, the Dingyan Army can be ceded to the Eighth Route Army. As long as the ancestral land of Xiazhou is left to the king of Longxi, and the two armies are bounded by Hengshan, such a condition must be acceptable to the king of Longxi! Chu Weiyan's face did not change and was authentic.

After hearing this, Li Wenge shook his head resolutely: "The king of Longxi can accept it, but I can't accept it!" ”

Seeing Chu Weiyan stunned, Li Wenge smiled and said: "Mr. Chunqiu, don't be surprised, the Tuoba family's occupation of Yinxia is just a matter of more than a hundred years, and it will be difficult for the four states, all of which are my Zhongzhou homeland." I am a man of good talk, but I will not make peace until my homeland is restored. It's not a matter of state or county, it's a matter of principle! ”

"Unless the king of Longxi is willing to give up all the four states of Yinxia, it will be difficult to negotiate peace!"

Chu Weiyan opened his mouth wide and looked at Li Wenge in surprise.

Li Wenge stood up, took two steps in the foyer, turned around and said: "Mr. Chunqiu is the descendant of Chu Dengshan Xiangguo, after the famous family, it can also be regarded as a vein of the Cultural Revolution, if you are willing to do a small favor to the Cultural Revolution, Mr. and Mr. Family, the Cultural Revolution will ensure that he is safe!" Chu Weiyan was taken aback, this Li Wenge even inquired about his family history clearly.

He hesitated for a moment, and said with a wry smile: "Now in this Tongwan City, the general can cover the sky with one hand, what is the order, can Wei Yan still disobey the order?" ”

Li Wenge looked at Chu Weiyan, smiled slightly, and said something...... The meeting was held in the lobby of the Dingyan Military Festival.

"Those close relatives of the Tuoba family have already begun to leave the city. A number of troops were deployed at the gates of the city on all sides, and inspection posts were set up, and in addition to the clothes they were wearing, they dared to guarantee that these people would not even want to be smuggled out of the city with a grain of millet, a cow or sheep, or a tael of gold and silver. He deployed an infantry on the city wall to respond, and Zhang commanded a cavalry to patrol back and forth in the city. As long as there are those who dare to make trouble, there will be no mercy under the knife and gun. Di Huaiwei sat at the bottom and reported to Li Wenge, who was sitting in the center.

Li Wenge nodded, and turned his face to look at Zhi Dehuang: "What's the situation on the fourth brother's side?" ”

Zhi Dehuang said with some worry: "The north gate of the urn city has been destroyed too much, the southern half of the urn city is still complete, the slopes on both sides are being bulldozed overnight at the moment, we are now tired soldiers, with a thousand people to occupy such a large city, it is too difficult to defend the city." ”

Li Wenge nodded and turned his face to look at Shen Chen.

Shen Chen flipped through the parchment scroll in his hand, and said without raising his head: "There are five thousand eight hundred and thirty-one live cattle and sheep in the city. There were six hundred and fourteen horses and mules. The air-dried beef and mutton are still being counted, and it is estimated that the total number should be more than 400,000 catties, and there are 380 pairs of armor, all of which are sleeveless cavalry armor. The weapons were mainly scimitars and shields, and lacquered and wooden guns were rare. In the city defense, there are three heavy bed crossbows, each of which requires more than five people to operate, and the firing range is more than 400 paces. In terms of population, I asked the person surnamed Chu, and there were thirteen families in the city of Tuoba and the Zhizhi clan, all of whom were descendants of Tuoba Sigongdi, of which there were about 800 people in Dingkou and about 2,000 women and children. Most of their tribal slave pastures were in the grasslands of the southern part of Xia Prefecture outside the city, because our army went on a northern expedition. Recently, I hid in Tongwan City. Therefore, there were not many Han slaves brought in, only less than 1,800 people, and other than that, the population of the rest of the city was made up of small family members—this is for Brother Minda......"

Xifeng Minda, who had been lowering his head and didn't know what to think, raised his head and said slightly tiredly: "There are more than 2,300 people in the Xifeng family in the city, and there are less than 3,000 slaves, of which Dingkou is about 2,700 people, and the horse team soldiers of the Xifeng family are not in the city. He was taken away by the head of the Tuoba family. The person who was originally in charge of the power of the fine seal family was called the fine seal Zeya. It's my mother's older brother. At the beginning of this year, he was imprisoned by the head of the Tuoba family. In the cellar of the backyard of this Jiedu Mansion, the land that now holds the clan power is the fine seal Jinsu, he is Zeya's uncle elder, and the Tuoba family raised him out, but he is just a puppet. The cattle and sheep pasture of the Xifeng family is still in the hands of the Elders, but the five hundred warrior horse team and most of the weapons and armor in the clan are directly controlled by the Tuoba family, and this family has already existed in name only! ”

Li Wenge nodded, and he asked Di Huaiwei: "Is Chu Weiyan still cooperative?" ”

Di Huaiwei smiled: "The knife is pressed on the neck, and he can't help it if he doesn't cooperate!" A hundred party written notices have been posted, and now he is going around the city with some of the officials of the original Jiedu Mansion to persuade everyone to leave the city, and there is a team of troops to guard and monitor. Those old men of the Tuoba family kept scolding him and spitting on him, but he didn't care much about it......"

Li Wenge nodded: "This person is a character, don't let him run away, but don't treat him slowly!" ”

He paused: "The situation is clear, what to do next, what do you think, let's talk about it!" ”

Zhi Dehuang's face was solemn: "My lord, we must send a messenger to the direction of Yinsui in the starry night to inform the deputy marshal Lao Wu and them of the battle situation on the western front. Ten thousand horses on the eastern front, as long as half of them are pressed, the Tuoba family will be defeated. Under the city of Tongwan is the place of decisive battle, and the east and west lines are separated by only more than 300 miles. In ten days, the East Route Army should have climbed over even if it was climbing! ”

Li Wenge thought about it, but looked at Shen Chen with his eyes.

Shen Chen shook his head: "We can't hold it for ten days!" ”

Zhe Dehuang said disapprehantly: "The enemy army is outside, and there is not much grain and grass to bring, and now the back road has been cut off by us, and it is already rootless water, and the morale of the army cannot be as before." There are all the materials in the Tongwan City, there is enough food, as long as the troops are enough, it is not difficult to hold it for a few months! Anyway, we are not afraid of delaying time, and the more we drag it out, the more beneficial it will be to our army! ”

Shen Chen still shook his head: "What you said is precisely the reason why Tuoba Yiyin will not drag it out." The city of Tongwan was occupied, and the evidence of the Dingyan army had been lost, and if the city could not be recaptured as soon as possible, the Tuoba family would be doomed. If I were Tuoba Yiyin, I would already be in a Jedi at this time, and I could no longer think of it, and there would be no other way to find it except for the siege of the city. Therefore, I will attack the city at any cost, at any cost and casualties. The walls of Tongwancheng are wide on all sides, and the enemy's 3,500 men and horses can be distributed on four sides, and nearly 900 people can be distributed on each side, while our army can only allocate at most 250 people to guard each wall, and it takes an average of four or five steps to spread one person. If the enemy is really determined to attack the city, let alone ten days, we will not be able to hold even one day! ”

Zhi Dehuang silently calculated, and nodded gloomily: "Du Si said that the enemy army really wants to attack the city, and I am afraid that it will be broken within a day!" ”

Shen Chen said without the slightest emotion: "Yu Houlang has calculated, if such a city defense is to be held steadily, it needs at least 5,000 men and horses, as long as there are 5,000 men and horses, even if the enemy army has 50,000 troops to attack for a year, they will not want to break it!" ”

Speaking of this, he licked his lips: "So, this city can't be defended ......!" ”